Partition backup

Hello.
I'm trying out True image.
After the program were installed, from Windows I made a partition backup; then I made the restore boot cd and, booting from it I made an incremental backup of the same partition stored before (same location as destination path, obviusly).
I wish to know how come the backup file size were incremented for the amount of more than 1 Gb... but the partition were containing the same data...

Please be aware that the incremental image created after a disk is defragmented might be considerably larger than usual. This is because the defragmentation program changes file locations on disk and incremental images reflect these changes.

If that's not the case then please check each partition of your hard drive by Windows utility:

- For Windows 9x please use Windows menu Start\Run
then enter the command "scandskw" and test all drives;

Hello.
I'm trying out True image.
After the program were installed, from Windows I made a partition backup; then I made the restore boot cd and, booting from it I made an incremental backup of the same partition stored before (same location as destination path, obviusly).
I wish to know how come the backup file size were incremented for the amount of more than 1 Gb... but the partition were containing the same data...

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Hello Naik,

TI creates an image by backing up the in-use sectors of your hard drive(s) only. A "thumbprint" of these in-use sectors are included in the image.

Prior to creating an incremental image, TI will compare the "thumbprint" contained in the previous image with the "thumbprint" for the proposed new image and backup those sectors that have changed. Not only will a defrag of your hard drive significantly change the thumbprint of current in-use sectors but so also will opening and closing Windows and other applications. Therefore, if you have a relatively small amount of used space on on your hard drive/partition (e.g. less than 2GB) then, in practise, there will be little difference between the size of a full image and an incremental.

I was absolutely wrong about 1GB of difference, as I wrote in my first post.

Sorry, I still need some advices.
When creating an image of the partition in use by the OS hosting TI, does it better launch it from the boot media?
What do I miss uninstalling the application from Windows and using it from the boot disk only?